skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investment is different. In the worst case scenario business goes bankrupt, which usually means you shut down the entity, sell off the assets, and everyone including the owners just go off and gets new jobs and live happily ever after.

Personally going bankrupt means you're now facing the possibility of actually being homeless on the streets.
https://grazily.com
That easy to write part is something, I am not so sure about. It took me ages to understand why my first try at writing a blender plugin didn't work.

It was because of white spaces not lining up. I was like, really? Using white spaces as a way to denote the body of a function? Really?
No, you just need to linearize the brightness.
Apps don't need it, and it probably shouldn't be offered. But as things stand, many of the OS's fundamental time APIs return time since boot, and for some reason, most of those aren't even listed as required-reason APIs. The APIs listed are mach_absolute_time() and ProcessInfo.systemUptime, but there is also clock_gettime() with CLOCK_MONOTONIC/CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW/CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW, as well more obscure ones like mach_continuous_time().
Therefore:

- I find it easy to believe that some of the apps may not realize they're using the restricted APIs in an unapproved way.

- Alternately, some of the apps may not be using restricted APIs at all, and instead getting the same information with non-restricted APIs. Not clear if that's even against the rules. It certainly would be extremely sketchy if done as an intentional workaround, but it would be even easier to do accidentally. If you grepped the codebase for uses of the restricted APIs, you wouldn't necessarily find uses of these other APIs.
We did have text/enriched¹ since 1994, but everybody mostly ignored it.

1. <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896>
You make sure you are wearing the same clothing as the recorded video loop. Use something like a stReamdeck to have hardware buttons that let you toggle to a live webcam. Elgato even has a foot pedal version that works great.
Swiss army knife maker innovates to meet global blade restrictions
Article title: Flagship: No done deal

Looks like you can't deep link to a subsection from semafor.
Just this week I went on a trip and forgot how I set the battery to not charge 100%. Now I know it was in the BIOS and that I will be able to change it without a restart soon.

Anyone know if there's any GUI or CLI tools for these parameters or should I stick to echo/cat?
So what is domestic involvement then? Treason?
> it's becoming very difficult for new dentists to go into private practice

I work with a lot of dentists and this is somewhat untrue. It’s challenging to open a practice and isn’t for everyone, but dentist offices rarely “fail” and a loan to open a dental office is up there with the easiest loans to get.

I do agree that over time dental groups (either owned by PE or dentists) will become more common.
How does it work exactly? Google sells lists of search terms and associated device ids to Meta?
Lack of ability to distinguish between pre-formatted text and regular prose alone makes it a complete non-starter for most who aren't reading monospaced text in a terminal. I don't really like reading monospace text for prose (many people don't), and using proportional fonts means things that are supposed to be aligned will break (and if you restrict yourself to text only, you'll find yourself aligning things on occasion for tables or other content).

I actually use plain text in FastMail because it's "better" than HTML (usually), but it's not good.

Ability to send text/markdown natively would be pretty brilliant.
> Price tags are pretty much universally handled at the stores.

Advertising isn't. If the same ad is viewable by people in different states, what price are they supposed to put on it? Shouldn't this be the same price as what they show in the stores, or else people will have trouble knowing if the advertising was deceptive?

> This is a solvable problem. So much so that if you've traveled in most nations you'll see that all prices include tax.

Don't most of those other nations have a uniform tax rate?
That they made it in east germany and made up an excuse for being bad at sales?

corning the guys they bring up at the very end is also the company that did pyrex. they spun that business off in the 90s. They don't mention that because you'd recognize it and go "wait my cabinet's been full of that my whole life"
Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy
There's really not an alternative to this problem. Private equity is gobbling up these practices because there is no one else who is going to take them over.

Owners are retiring at an astonishing rate. But young professionals don't have the money to buy up the practices, that is assuming any business acumen they might have had would not have been weeded out by schooling. And even if they did - there's no reason to buy an established practice off of a retiring owner when you can just grow your own (granted there is a buyer for you at the end of it).

There's also the tax aspect. Even if you wanted to gift your business to your family/employees, you would be immediately loading them with a massive tax burden for an asset they don't immediately get to benefit from. (Linus of LTT fame actually does a good job describing this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faa-b2uq0gA)

The same thing is happening everywhere - family medical, law firms, mechanics, and even farms.
And then they go broke and people wonder why there is no toy store anymore.
Rad, I’ll check it out! Btw since you’re into worms, you should come join the community at https://community.wormpeople.com. New folks are always welcome and everybody is very nice and knowledgeable.
What kind of support would you have hoped for?
Is there anything stopping those teams from deploying k8s and every possible apache product onto these machines?

There's also middle ground in the form of Digital ocean's kubernetes which runs noticeably cheaper than big tech cloud offerings.
Rust really seems like the perfect language (Along with Elixir, Python, and Typescript, of course).

I'm really looking forward to seeing it become popular on microcontrollers, since I don't really do any compiled work outside of embedded.

I'd really like to see ESPHome start moving to rust but I'm not sure if that will happen.
Surely the fix here is to lie to apps about uptime, adding the offset at the OS level.
UI/UX patents? Outside of the US it is hard to see how a court would validate that. IIRC they are excluded from patentability in the EU.
> Brian, a 29-year-old street sweeper, waited outside an Orb center for an elderly couple whom he had convinced to sign up for Worldcoin. Brian, who requested his last name be withheld due to fear of legal repercussions, told Rest of World he makes a profit by cashing in the WLD tokens given to new clients — most of whom have little knowledge of cryptocurrency. He then transfers the money to them in pesos using Mercado Pago, Argentina’s most popular digital wallet. Brian takes a cut, which varies depending on the client. “I keep more from the junkies,” he said.

> At the time of writing, Brian said he makes about $114 every week. He estimated that there are “dozens” of intermediaries seeking out people in need of “easy money” amid economic turmoil. Rest of World found dozens of intermediaries on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, offering to exchange the WLD for the “best rate.”

That doesn't seem like "booming" to me. It seems like desperate people trying to cash in on a promotion, and it doesn't follow from that that the cryptocurrency tokens will be popular or their ID verification scheme is getting any traction.
Slartboz Tales v2
50% survivability increase, but is that going from 2/10000 to 1/10000 deaths? My impression is that spaying is relatively safe, so how much are we willing to spend to get more 9's?

Edit: deleted distracting details that the comment below rightfully calls out.
Regarding several thousands for a replacement.. to be fair, garage doors are probably one of, if not the most, dangerous part of a home to work on
One could argue it’s a good thing: these people filter themselves out of our lives. It could almost make me wish for an Android.
hahahaha. Imagine if SCOTUS decides said law banning non-competes is unconstitutional. Could they do it in such a way to kill the "non-competes are unenforceable" law in CA? that would suck.
wherever having a 5$ deposit on a coke bottle makes sense?
Google's AI plans now include cybersecurity
As a resident of Western Australia, it's disappointing that the Conti roll is the main recognisable thing we have centred on Perth. And I've never seen or heard of a hamdog.

We have a vibrant food scene here, from food trucks representing a lot of international food types to some pretty excellent restaurants serving local produce. But I guess there are few unique Western Australian dishes. We are, slowly, embracing more native plants and fruits in cuisine, though it's always seemed a massive oversight to me - it's a vast land with many edible plants but we largely ignore them in favour of the same stuff you can get in the UK and US. We are starting to see things like saltbush, pepperberry, warrigal greens, finger limes, quandong etc, showing up in some places, with interest slowly growing in the richness and possibilities of "Bush Tucker".

It does feel a bit odd having whole-Australian things like "Sausage Sizzle" on one city, Sydney. Or "Crocodile meat" centred on Canberra. Yeah it's the capital, but there aren't any crocs within 1000km of there that aren't in a zoo.

Note on the site - it's hard to hit the little numbers to expand the foods in any one place. They seem to highlight when the pointer is significantly below the target.
> for healthy animals

this is the key part of your statement. Many animals for many diseases appear healthy but don't until a work up in done.
Thing about academia (like computer science and the like) is, you need a programming language you can get across easily, quickly and can get people to produce satisfying results in no time.

Back then it might have been java, then python, till the next language comes around.

The java thing was so apparent, that when you looked at c++ code, you were able to spot the former java user pretty easily. :)

About python, sometime ago, I was looking into arudino programming in c and found someone offering a library (I think) in c (or c++, can't remember). What i remember is, that this person stopped working on it, because they got many requests and questions regarding to be able to use their library in python.
According to Hertz investor relations documentation

"Adjusted Corporate EBITDA was negative $567 million in the quarter driven mainly by a $588 million increase in vehicle depreciation compared to the first quarter of 2023, of which $195 million related to EVs held for sale. The Company commenced a broad fleet refresh during the quarter and has revenue and cost initiatives in place to enhance the Company's future profitability."

So only 33% or $195 of the $588 million dollar increase in vehicle depreciation was from their EV. Sounds like the main cause of their woes is the interest rate hikes the Fed implemented which initiated a period there from 2022 through part of 2023 where it was the worst time to buy a vehicle of all time as everything interest-rate linked deprecated greatly after going from ~3% to 5% interest rate so quickly.

It has nothing to do with Tesla vehicles not meeting expectations. The only expectation they didn't meet was an expected appreciation in value as occurred between 2021 and 2022, but that was the same for ALL vehicles. Personally I can say from my experience with my mid Dec 2023 Model Y it has far exceeded my expectations, and prices have actually gone up since I purchased it.

Source: https://newsroom.hertz.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
> You don’t see PE firms buying up restaurants.

They do, just usually restaurant chains.
More likely just tracking pixels. Unless Google is sharing data with Meta which seems unlikely. They operate competing ad networks.
AI for precise long text summarization that doesn't miss important details
while building AI applications I noticed a perpetual need for a really good summarization engine for applications to work well.

Voice transcripts are a common use case. I've a long text transcript that I love to throw at an LLM to give me insights for:

1. generating summary of insights relevant for learning/researching/sales prospecting about X from the Zoom transcript

2. generate question and answer pairs using YouTube videos as a synthetic data finetuning data source

3. Synthesising most important facts of multi long documents in Perplexity-type of AI search

After going down the rabbit hole of past and present solutions, I found most projects leverage long context length LLMs, which I wasn't too satisfied with. Studies have also shown this is not a long term solution since such LLMs seem unable to extract facts from the early sections of long text.

Inspired by code agents, I decided to try an agent-based approach to summarization. Like code agents who significantly improve when used in an agentic approach instead of a zero-shot way, I implemented a hierarchical approach to generating detailed summaries with long text documents like research papers.

boy, I was blown away by the results. You can view them in the Google Docs I attached.

What do you think of these summaries? I would love the community's feedback, especially on summarization techniques that have worked well from your experience that don't require significant set up.

Disclaimer: I did not fact check the figures in the summaries so they might be subject to some hallucination

will the community be keen to see more of this project?
Adding an offset would still make this "derived data" which is "not allowed" to be sent off device.
>U.S. healthcare for the non-rich elderly is a nightmare.

It seems like just living in the US is a nightmare for those who aren't rich.
I've been waiting for something like this!! I don't know why this doesn't exist already!

It would be helpful if you added more to the homepage.

What languages does it support?
You aren’t fooling anyone.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773426.
> Palestinians rejected it and went back to intifada.

Um, not really. Hamas did. And their radical brethren who assassinated Yitzhak.

It did end up extremely bad for everyone involved.

(I don't want to downplay the anti-Oslo sentiment [0], especially that Oslo I-II got signed despite the attacks previously.

Also it's hard to say how well the PLO represented the people, but it's sure that they were more accepted than Hamas. After all Arafat got elected in 1996 despite participating in the peace process.

It seems fairly clear that the peace process was a very unfortunate Schelling point for extremists on both sides, and their tireless cooperation successfully pushed the region away from peace and prosperity.

And, it's also important to note that it's perfectly possible that Arafat was simply deceitful, and the PLO wanted to get some breathing space to gather an army, blablabla. Sure. And that would/could have lead to ... exactly here anyway. Or maybe it would be even worse! Those are all legitimate concerns that have to be addressed, but very few things can simply make the basic issues irrelevant, and as long as people are there they will inevitably bear the burden of living with those unaddressed issues.)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_views_on_the_pea...
I'd love to do something like this for Australian native plants. It seems like quite a lot of work though!
Yes - all $20B isn't pure profit. It must take 25% of an engineers time to maintain the search box in safari. So lets say it is only $19,999,899,999 in profits.
>> And most have to go into agriculture anyways.

This is patently false. There has never been money in cow doctoring like small animals, and the growth in new vets is almost universally for fur babies.
Markdown gives most people >95% of the formatting they want to do.

It's easy and fairly intuitive to write (most of it, anyway).

It's easy to read in different formats and ways (HTML, plain text).

It doesn't add highly complex rendering issues. I've worked on two email clients in the last ten years, and the amount of weird HTML some send is just bonkers. Is <div style="position:fixed"> in emails crazy? Yes. Do you need to deal with it? Also yes.
HN isn't really "about" anything as specific as that, but if it was about something I think many more people would say HN is about the hacker spirit, not about being a good capitalist.

And the hacker spirit was never about allowing rent-seeking corpos do whatever they want.
Sweet! Thanks for sharing, I will keep my eyes on this.
Misconceptions about CSS Specificity
Congress already passed a law granting the ftc the authority to prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair practices affecting commerce.
They can afford them, they just choose not to prioritize them.
Related:

As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40250056 - May 2024 (314 comments)

The fishy death of Red Lobster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029 - May 2024 (379 comments)

Private Equity Is Gutting America – and Getting Away with It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223209 - Feb 2024 (11 comments)

Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036526 - Jan 2024 (66 comments)

Private equity piling on debt like never before - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38962454 - Jan 2024 (68 comments)

Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773426 - Dec 2023 (163 comments)

44% of All Single-Family Home Purchases Were by Private Equity Firms in 2023 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522937 - Dec 2023 (25 comments)

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38069197 - Oct 2023 (506 comments)

Private equity: A fee too far [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37072374 - Aug 2023 (47 comments)

Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36747572 - July 2023 (401 comments)

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313967 - June 2023 (349 comments)

Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36108182 - May 2023 (243 comments)

Why does private equity get to play make-believe with prices? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34292166 - Jan 2023 (33 comments)

When private equity takes over a nursing home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597326 - Aug 2022 (89 comments)

Entire telecomm infrastructure of Iceland sold to private equity? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143631 - July 2022 (113 comments)

Private equity may be heading for a fall - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32013295 - July 2022 (177 comments)

Private equity groups that buy companies they own - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31822914 - June 2022 (62 comments)

FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31728350 - June 2022 (279 comments)

I lost count at that point.
Ask HN: Can Google hire satya as it's CEO?
What are the legal implications? Would satya accept if offered higher salary?
Google is pretty much unusable today if you don't look for specific websites. If you are using it to look up information, learn or discover new things in the web it is just SEO LLM spam. Features like shopping and LLM-powered Q&A are quite misleading and potentially dangerous for a trusting user.
This is cool. I wrote a TOTP authenticator for the ArduBoy: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/30/build-one-time-pa...
Hi! Very valid points raised. Thank you for raising them. We will add information about data collected, how is it processed if at all. And also address the concerns that /u/chipdart had.

Of course we don't want the tool to be used by scammers or malicious people - so we'll do what's required to prevent that.

Thank you once again. Much appreciated.
No, HN doesn’t have read/unread state, and also cuts off discussions after a day. This makes checking for new comments tedious, and prevents any longer discussions.
For me it's not even "hacked" that's the problem, the issue is cloud, subscriptions and the intersection of government and corporate interests.

My phone is an amazing tool but it also enables quite pervasive surveillance, including realtime location tracking.

Will this new thing be a "super powered assistant" or a superficially helpful snoop who's going to sell my interests and attention to the highest bidder? While co-operating with surveillance dragnets on the side? Is there any possible way that it turns out NOT to do those other things given the incentives for all parties and current regulatory environment?
The Tsoding channel has a good introductory video showing what trying out Fortran feels like:

"Learning Fortran in 2023"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvUQndB8R9s
I use Kagi everyday since a while ago and used ddg before that and almost never had to resort to google, personally. Even less with Kagi than w/ ddg.
Clickbait title. The speedup only applies to one particular interaction between SDL and numpy.
Google data never leaves their platform, it’s too valuable to them. Retargeting works the other way where a site or app attempts to get a cookie or fingerprint and gives them to Google or Meta to target that user with ads
Happens on Android too. Google and Facebook have a secret agreement to share data.

https://www.wired.com/story/texas-accuses-google-facebook-il...
Not entirely untrue.
The last time I had an Android, I rooted it, replaced the boot animation with a Tardis, installed some anti-virus / anti-theft app that silently forwarded all received sms to my other number (and realised after selling it I hadn’t properly removed it).

By the end of that first weekend I had had to reinstall Android / AOSP a dozen times, only to realise Monday morning I had somehow screwed up the cellular stack so I couldn’t use it.

That’s when I realised I couldn’t trust myself with that kind of power.
Good thing I don't use DHCP.
They don't wish harm on you because you are not Muslim.
What's the point of sharing your own tweet that is not that significant?
Catchy word: the destination source
The horrendous civilian casualties we are seeing in Gaza are not collateral damage, or otherwise unintended byproducts of the operation. They are the coolly chosen effective means -- along with the destruction of housing, hospitals, schools and so on -- of promoting its expressly stated goal: what the government refers to as "humanitarian emigration" from the Strip.

As articulated by Likud MK / Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel back in January:

On Tuesday, Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel told Zman that “voluntary migration is the best and most realistic program for the day after the fighting ends.”

On Tuesday, during a conference held in the Knesset to examine possibilities for postwar Gaza, Gamliel said: “At the end of the war, Hamas rule will collapse. There are no municipal authorities; the civilian population will be entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. There will be no work, and 60% of Gaza’s agricultural land will become security buffer zones.”

Gamliel said that Gaza must not be handed over to the Palestinian Authority, and Gazans must not be left in the Strip to be educated to hate, as that would mean that further attacks on Israel are only a matter of time. While rejecting the PA’s return, the government has offered few details on what political entity it wants to rule Gaza.

“The Gaza problem is not just our problem,” Gamliel said. “The world should support humanitarian emigration, because that’s the only solution I know.”